yeah, you are probably right there, most people with pc's at home just use them for communications (and gaming maybe) but possibly not acquiring news
(real news not the crap that is spoon fed from the TV).

Marcus Hutchins... a citizen and resident of the United Kingdom, was arrested in the United States on 2 August, 2017, in Las Vegas, Nevada, after
a grand jury in the Eastern District of Wisconsin returned a six-count indictment against Hutchins for his role in creating and distributing the
Kronos banking Trojan," the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a statement.

"The charges against Hutchins, and for which he was arrested, relate to alleged conduct that occurred between in or around July 2014 and July
2015."

Kronos is malware that is designed to steal banking login and other financial data from infected computers.

Huh? You would think that some dastardly, hacker, would be smart enough to not attend a well known event in Las Vegas. Let alone if you are the cyber
security rock star that halted a world wide ransomware attack.

Let's see. Kronos popped up 2014 which would put him at 20. Then it popped up again last year after the WannaCry outbreak. The timing doesn't look
quite right.

Kronos came from Russian forums. Steals info, keystroke recorder, own email engine, changes registry entries, and is after your banking info. That is
an awful lot of stuff for a couple of dudes to cook up. Especially when the British tabloids are following your every move.

I don't pretend to know anything about this.
All I know is they said Microsoft wanted us to install security update KB4012212.
#401 was found on the starboard propeller of the Titanic so I'm not getting all warm and fuzzy feelings about this update.
Years ago you could use a decompiler to figure out what an object actually did and even modify it.

I read that at this years defcon they were demonstrating some advanced reverse engineering tools that could be operated remotely.
Presumably the victim would still have to be fooled into clicking through an run allow but still..

There are tools out there that I would probably swear to never got on the internet again if I knew what they could do.

I used to like knowing what code did on my machine. Then I wrecked my registry so my curiosity kind of died there.

As far as his hacking goes seems we have two options:

1 - Believe he created Kronos and is "bad guy" hacker
2 - Believe the FBI

I don't like either option! My mind "knows" which one is most likely but my tinfoil hat also tingles!

I think I will drop the whole thing and go back to watching Mr. Robot where I know the hacking is "real" (they have technical staff actually working
out how a hack would be conducted) but I can turn the tv off at the end of the day!

Another expert in computer crime, Orin Kerr from George Washington University law school, also took aim at the charges. Kerr said it's unusual,
and problematic, for prosecutors to go after someone simply for writing or selling malware—as opposed to using it to further a crime.

"The indictment is pretty bare bones, and we don't have all the facts or even what the government thinks are the facts," Kerr wrote in an opinion
piece in the Washington Post. "So while we can't say that this indictment is clearly an overreach, we can say that the government is pushing the
envelope in some ways and may or may not have the facts it needs to make its case."

They also say that if selling code that leads to malware is a crime then half the code producers in the US are felons! All I can think of is the bloat
size of MS Word as it goes through iterations. Why should one version save a file as 3K in an early version and the next version it 6- or 7K??

The "incentive" is also used in the article. As in, "dis-incentive" for software security companies to actually do work. That puts everybody at risk.
Keeps the NSA in the game but puts everybody at risk. That is what I think the real issue here is that the identity of the true author of software is
at stake and cowering behind the skirt of the FBI some grandiose charges have been leveled to shut the guy up.

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